Business & Economics : Development - Sustainable Development

Offering effective tools for addressing the dual crises of climate change and the economy, Invisible Energy demonstrates the huge potential benefits of imple......

Modern environmentalism owes a great debt to philosopher, professor, and writer Arne Naess, cofounder of the Deep Ecology movement. Here, editors Alan Drengs......

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Love, Joy, Authenticity, and Soul:Building Winning Businesses in theNew Age of Transcendence• Why today&rs......

Mitchell declares that managers should be freed from the legal and structural constraints that make it difficult for them to exercise ordinary moral judgment......

The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degrada......

Over the last two decades environmental issues have become important in public and business policy. This book asks why firms sometimes voluntarily adopt envi......

People today must make decisions about many health, safety, and environmental risks. Nuclear power, HIV/AIDS, radon, vaccines, climate change, and emerging i......

Natural Resources and Economic Development explores a key paradox: why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits to the poor economies o......

Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book reviews how practical science can ......

More and more people believe we must quickly wean ourselves from fossil fuels - oil, natural gas and coal - to save the planet from environmental catastrophe......

One of the most important issues facing humanity today is the prospect of global climate change, brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and heavy......

This is the final book in a three-part series entitled, " Voices of the Poor. " The series is based on an unprecedented effort to gather the views, experienc......

What are the alternatives to slash-and-burn in the Indonesian uplands? Based on fieldwork conducted in 1997 in some 40 small regions throughout Indonesia, as......

This book assesses how various institutional, policy and managerial options can enhance nature tourism's contribution to the 'triple bottom line'. There are ......

The worldwide concern with deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia is partly motivated by the perception that it is a destructive process in which the social and......

"How effectively has the World Bank Group assisted its clients in enhancing the contribution of the extractive industries to sustainable development? This ......

The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of povert......

Little over a decade ago, infrastructure concessions promised to solve Latin America's endemic infrastructure deficit. Awarded in competitive auctions, these......

The brown agenda or urban environmental issues became an important part of the international policy agenda following the United Nations Conference on Environ......

Jamaica's economic history is a story of paradoxes and potential. It has an English-speaking and a reasonably well-educated labor force, is close to the wor......